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I got tired of reading about Trump and Elon.
by crims0n 8mo ago
I got tired of reading about Trump and Elon.
- aqrit 8mo ago[flagged]
- beej71 8mo agoI'm also trying to understand. The agenda is to publish about Trump and Elon? Is that correct?
- crims0n 8mo agoThe agenda is to highlight when Trump and Elon blunder but ignore neutral or positive stories. Go to the front page right now and look at the articles, I see four mentioning Trump that are negatively charged. That isn't to say any one article is untrue, but hard to miss the curated pattern
- bsimpson 8mo agoHonest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.
- cubefox 8mo agoApart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.
- lukeschlather 8mo agoAside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?
- cubefox 8mo agoWould that excuse being extremely negative about anything that is much less than extremely negative?
- lukeschlather 8mo agoThat is an incredibly tortured sentence. I'm not really interested in parsing tone in an article, that's very subjective. I would be interested if you could demonstrate that Ars was choosing not to write articles about factual things that would portray Musk in a positive light, but you instead basically said "If you ignore all of their positive factual coverage, they don't publish anything positive about Musk at all!"
- cubefox 8mo agoI have said that they have a strong negative bias. Whether the underlying news is positive or negative is completely irrelevant. Relevant is that they make things much more negative (= less positive) than they are.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoBut how does that bias manifest? The only thing you said was that they "ignore neutral or positive stories", and that doesn't seem to be true.
- cubefox 8mo agoNo, I didn't say that at all. I said they are biased, that "they make things much more negative (= less positive) than they are", which is a very different thing. Basically, I'm saying they report x-10 rather than x (that's bias), and you are replying with "so the value of x they report is always negative or 0." No. Wrong.
- Dylan16807 8mo ago
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoNothing Trump or his administration has done warrants good press.
- Marsymars 8mo agohttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-says-it-convinced-uk-to-drop-demand-for-apple-backdoor/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-says... This is the only thing that comes to mind, and Ars covered it.
- lbrito 8mo agoAnd is that supposed to be bad in any way?